Re: Making and using macros with arguments

Posted by Michael Schmid on Dec 03, 2010; 4:19pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Making-and-using-macros-with-arguments-tp3686300p3686303.html

Hi Bob,

you can use the ImageJ Prefs to pass parameters between macros, but  
that's not a very nice way of programming. See this previous post for  
an expample:
   https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?
A2=ind0909&L=IMAGEJ&P=R29962&1=IMAGEJ&9=A&J=on&d=No+Match%3BMatch%
3BMatches&z=4

Michael
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On 3 Dec 2010, at 13:38, Bob wrote:

> According to the manual for writing macros for ImageJ, I can define  
> a function in the same macro file, and the macro can call it.  The  
> function can take arguments, which the macro can pass to it.  But  
> what if the function itself is general/useful/reusable enough to be  
> a macro in its own right?  In other words, can one write a macro  
> that takes in arguments?  If so, what is the syntax for writing the  
> macro, and what is the syntax for calling it?  I didn’t find  
> anything in the manual about this possibility, but I may have  
> missed it.
>
> Thanks